onza

• “O salve reina Maria Lionza Or save queen Maria Lionza por Venezuela va con su onza y cuidando está Venezuela takes her to Oz and is caring y va velando a su tierra entera desde el Guajiro hasta Cumaná and will ensure your whole earth from the Guajiro to Cumaná”

  In History: María Lionza from Venezuela « Gender Across Borders

• “Estos pesticidas an son venenosos porque una cantidad pequea como de una onza a una pinta puede matar a un adulto.”

  Chapter 21

• “With a low cry of surprise, Juan gazed at the glittering coins; then, with feverish fingers, he took up a handful and examined them carefully, for he had never seen the Spanish onza, and did not know its value.”

  Old Mission Stories of California

• “Up to 1860 gold was so abundant that as much as 10 per cent, was paid to exchange an _onza_ of gold (P16) for silver.”

  The Philippine Islands

• “The jaguar (_felis onza_) is found now and then on the summits of the barrancas.”

  Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan

• “The price assigned for each Indian was two taes of gold -- each tae being slightly more than one onza -- the value formerly general among them for slaves.”

  The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 16 of 55 1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

• “There was also a silver coin called a _peso_, which was valued at eight _reals_ of silver, and weighed one _onza_”

  The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 03 of 55 1569-1576 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

• “Let his diligence when he preaches be not long, but fervid; for one onza of gold is worth more than an arroba of straw.”

  The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

• “On opening the snuff-box I found there “una onza de oro,” (an ounce of gold,) the sole remains of his fortune.”

  Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men

• “To celebrate the unhoped-for arrival of una onza de oro, M. Berthemie and I had procured an immense dish of potatoes.”

  Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men

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